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If only Aaron Freeman fought his fellow Republican legislators over the road funding formula in Indiana on behalf of his Marion County constituents … as hard as he fights IndyGo, we’d have nice roads in Indianapolis.
If Freeman can’t find the funding to fix Marion County sidewalks and roads after being in office since 2017, maybe he should step aside for a legislator who is willing to do that… or get out of the way of an organization like IndyGo that’s found a way to get the roads fixed.
Otherwise, all the talk about insisting that Washington Street remain two lanes is meaningless and is just the talk of a guy who hates public transit.
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I’ve never really paid much attention to Aaron Freeman, other thank knowing he was once on the Indianapolis City Council before being elected to the state senate. On the home page of his political website (freemanforindiana.com) he has this introductory rhetoric:
1. Aaron Freeman is a community leader fighting for Hoosier values.
2. We can count on Aaron to stand up for continued economic development and growth,
3. Empowering successful futures in the classroom for our children,
4. Keeping and creating safe neighborhoods,
5. Protecting our tax dollars.
6. Aaron believes in and will fight for limited government spending,
7. Letting taxpayers keep more of their hard-earned money.
8. The government must live within its means.
9. Aaron will continue to support and listen to the voice of Hoosiers from District 32,
10. Delivering real results.
I find it interesting that his website URL is “Freeman For Indiana” rather than “Freeman For Indianapolis.” It is also interest according to the Tax Foundation, Indiana taxpayers already have a lower per-capita total tax burden (9.3%) than our neighbors in Kentucky (9.6%), Ohio (10.0%) and Illinois (12.9%).
How much lower can we go with taxes before our schools, roads and streets, public safety, and health care deteriorate to even more embarrassing conditions?
I’m left with this question: aside from inflicting more pain on his constituents with his Scrooge-like approach to governmental responsiveness, what has Aaron Freeman actually done to deserve our support?
Simply put, what “real results” has he delivered…and to whom has he delivered it? That’s a question his westside constituents want answered.
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Mr Freeman has a big grandiose view of himself. He has been successful in being an obstacle for the sake of being such…and at the expense (yes, expense $$$$) of citizenry by simply being a very loud, often obnoxious contrarian. Far from his stated sense of purpose. Sad example of elected responsibility.
Those business leaders need to talk to their state reps and make sure after they talk to them they vote them out…because they are obviously not fighting for their constituent priorities just his to rail against anything organized or set up in Indianapolis.
Plank one of the Republican creed is small government and less taxes. It sounds good on paper. What is means is substandard everything, from schools to roads to public, to transit tax collection, to law enforcement.
The second plank in the current incarnation of the Republican party is to “own the libs”. You’d have to replace the entire Republican party with something else if you really wanted a party that worked for the betterment of the entire state. Most Republicans forget that the Indy Metro area accounts for 50% of the state’s GDP, and that Marion county alone is 25% of that number.
What gets even better is that business leaders are loudly claiming they want better-educated workers. Apparently, they just want someone else to pay for them … besides businesses. The constant push to cut taxes is directly correlated to not being able to find workers.
The sooner that Indiana business organizations realize that they can’t have a free lunch, the better.
“many Hoosiers may believe that a high school education is enough for a career. But, in reality, nearly all new jobs require further education.”
“I think there’s some wishful thinking… (that) students might not be going on to some sort of higher education but they’re going to work–I wish I could say that’s the case. But the labor participation for students today who aren’t going on to postsecondary (education is) on the decline. They’re not working, they’re not going to school and–in the long term–they’re not employable.”
That’s what the Indiana Chamber themselves is saying. Too bad our legislators don’t listen.
https://www.ibj.com/articles/indiana-chamber-repairs-needed-for-indianas-leaking-workforce-pipeline
As a constituent, it would be nice if Aaron Freeman actually fought for his district and Indianapolis. He’s from the Indy area, and yet chooses to fight public transportation, rather than his rural Republican colleagues who screw Indy with their road funding formulas.
Now, to be fair….PLNETY of these businesses and residents were FUMING over the Blue Line and all of the disruptions is was going to have on their community. Be careful what you wish for.
As opposed to the disruptions from major road work?
Sandlin (who tried to ban bus-only lanes in Indianapolis at the Statehouse) and Freeman would be better if they just did nothing across the board. All they’re accomplishing is stopping the city from finding alternative funding for roads. They could at least be as loud for more road funding as they are when it comes to hating IndyGo.
Marion County needs more road funding. That’s controlled by the state of Indiana. The formula is rigged against Indianapolis since it doesn’t give you any extra money for multi lane roads.
We just had a special session in which a billion dollars was given back to taxpayers because our legislators couldn’t figure out how to spend the money. Did you see Aaron Freeman or Jack Sandlin stand up and say, hey, how about some money for roads in our area? Nope. Just some quiet mumbling about a “technical fix”. Sure, that’s going to find nine figures every year.
The feds require a ban on cars in perfectly good traffic lanes on at least 50 percent of the project, or no Color Line funding. Why? Because “cars bad, must be f-ed with”. This idiotic policy from Washington is a huge reason for opposition to these projects. It remains beyond many of us why traffic lanes must be taken out of general service so buses can run up and down the street.
So the buses can stay on time. Not hard to understand even if you don’t agree with the premise.
Again, we could have nice roads with no bus lines if we weren’t so cheap.